Kushner’s immigration plan doesn’t even mention DACA

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared
Kushner, has failed to impress members of his own party with
his lackluster immigration plan.

According to The Washington Post, Kushner was unable to answer
basic questions from Republican senators in attendance at his
Tuesday meeting, leaving senior adviser Stephen Miller to guide
most of the conversation.

“He’s in his own little world,” one individual familiar with
the discussion in the meeting anonymously told the Post. “He
didn’t give many details about what was in [his plan]. … And
there were a number of instances where people had to step in
and answer questions because he couldn’t.”

Perhaps most shocking, Kushner’s immigration plan makes no
mention of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),
a program that Trump unilaterally ended in late 2017 and that
has been hanging on by a thread thanks to a court
injunction.

Approximately 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the
country as children — nicknamed Dreamers — have DACA, allowing
them to work, study, and live in the United States without fear
of deportation. Because of the court injunction, no new DACA
applications are being accepted and there is currently no path
to citizenship for DACA recipients trapped in this bureaucratic
limbo.

Congressional Democrats have introduced a new and improved
version of the Dream Act that would provide a path to
citizenship for not only for Dreamers, but also for immigrants
with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced
Departure (DED), two temporary immigration programs that the
Trump administration has at one point or another decided to
end. According to the Center for American Progress, an
estimated could be permanently protected under the Dream
and Promise Act. Poll after poll has shown the Dream Act to be
extremely popular, with over 80% of the American population
supporting the legalization of Dreamers. (Editor’s Note:
ThinkProgress is an editorially independent news site housed at
the Center for American Progress.)

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The Dream and Promise Act will for the first time include
protections for TPS and DED holders.

Omitting a DACA fix from any comprehensive immigration
plan concerned Republicans who believe that it is impossible to
get Democrats on board without it. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
told the Post that she is “concerned about the fate of the DACA
young people, and they cannot be excluded from any immigration
package.”

The Dream Act has historically received bipartisan support.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was one of six Republican co-sponsors
of the original bill, which was first introduced in the Senate
over 18 years ago. The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant
rhetoric, however, has pulled the party much further to the
right and away from compromises like the Dream Act. By 2017,
only three Republican senators supported the bill. In the
House, only six Republicans out of the chamber’s 435 members
co-sponsored the 2017 version of the Dream Act.

Kushner reportedly chose not to discuss DACA and Dreamers at
the meeting because he wanted to focus on issues that would
“bring people together.”

While Miller’s involvement in drafting immigration policy has
been well-reported, there have been few details regarding what
Kushner is pitching to party leaders. So far, reports suggest
that Kushner is advocating for tougher border security and a
“merit-based” immigration system that prioritizes
“high-skilled” workers.

“Merit-based immigration” is highly coded language that usually
means educated, white immigrants from wealthy countries and is
meant to exclude immigrants from Central America and Africa who
arrive at the border seeking asylum.

During a closed door meeting on TPS protections and merit based
immigration last year, Trump reportedly said “Why are we having
all these people from shithole countries come here?” referring
to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries.

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